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Am I the only one who struggles to take the name 'Meta' seriously, and still calls Zuckerberg's empire Facebook? Its a name that straddles pretentiousness and inanity ('That is sooo meta.') too acutely, and I resent them adopting a name of a broader movement of engineering for themselves. Or rather stealing it from https://meta.is/ .

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It's a flagrant attempt at reputation laundering. As far as I'm concerned, "Meta" is Facebook, "Alphabet" is Google, and "Xfinity" is Comcast.

I'll probably call it facebook forever. But I don't know if it's because the new name is Meta. I call Alphabet Google.

Does Google even want you to call them Alphabet though? Facebook's rebrand is far more intentional than Google's

That has pretty much been the consensus opinion since the name change, so no, you are not the only one.

The only people who I see consistently calling Zuckerberg's empire "Meta" are financial types that care about name of the company granting shares and on the stock ticker, and reporters who have to do copy editing.

Yeah - it's pretty poor branding IMO

It's not Meta. It's Facebook. Meta feels like... an SNL skit or something.

Not at all.

Slightly tangential, but I still see news headlines use "Facebook" where it technically should be "Meta". I assume this is because only techies know what Meta is; everybody knows what Facebook is.

It's been 7 years since Google rebranded and everyone still calls it Google.

Google (company) didn't rebrand. They are now part of Alphabet (conglomerate).

Facebook (company) is now called Meta (company) and continues work on Facebook (product).

And I make both those distinctions exactly never in my personal life.

You’re not the only one although I think it’s cool (albeit contrary to personal preferences) to see comments on this thread from people who have positive VR experiences

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